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Responsibility for prescribing between primary and secondary\/tertiary care –\u00a0NHS England\u00a0<\/strong> The health, safety and wellbeing of shift workers in health and social care environments\u00a0<\/strong> Counter-terrorism in the NHS: evaluating Prevent Duty safeguarding in the NHS –\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Implementing seven day hospital services – NHS Improvement<\/strong> Patient safety incidents: supporting staff<\/strong> Special measures for finance reasons<\/strong> Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n Bulletins<\/strong><\/p>\n HSJ Roundup<\/strong>\u00a0(contact the Library for further details<\/a>)<\/p>\n Our Fabulous NHS \u2013 Academy of Fabulous Stuff
\nThis guidance <\/a>aims to provide clarity on the responsibilities of all professionals involved in commissioning and prescribing across primary, secondary and tertiary care, and to provide support in developing shared care agreements and in the transfer of care.<\/p>\n
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\nThis guidance <\/a>sets out how shift work can impact on staff health and safety and how organisations and individuals should manage any risks on staff wellbeing.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Prevent Duty is a component of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 which requires health care providers to train their staff about the signs of radicalisation and how to report patients or staff to safeguarding teams. This report<\/a> looks at how\u00a0Midlands health care providers undertook their safeguarding responsibilities under the Prevent Duty.<\/p>\n
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\nThese case studies<\/a>, developed in collaboration with individual trusts, will help providers overcome some of the barriers to implementing seven day hospital services.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has published A just culture guide<\/a>.\u00a0 This guide encourages managers to treat staff involved in a patient safety incident in a consistent, constructive and fair way.\u00a0 It supports a conversation about whether a staff member involved in a patient safety incident requires specific individual support or intervention to work safely.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has published Special measures for finance reasons: guidance for trusts<\/a>.\u00a0 This guidance describes how special measures work for financial reasons.\u00a0 A list of the trusts currently in special measures is also available.<\/p>\n
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\nThe government\u2019s instructions for the NHS in 2018-19 confirm that flagship waiting time targets for planned and emergency care remain on hold.<\/li>\n
\nMore than 1 million NHS staff are set to be offered an average 6 per cent pay rise spread over three years from next April, after ministers and trade unions agreed a deal to reform the Agenda for Change pay framework, HSJ has been told.<\/li>\n
\nA damning review has warned one of the most distressed hospital trusts in the country \u201ccannot enter another winter\u201d without more beds, with hundreds of patients waiting more than 12 hours in its emergency department every month.<\/li>\n
\nUniversity Hospitals Leicester Trust is to create a wholly owned subsidiary to run its facilities management services as the board has been told current arrangements are \u201cnot sustainable\u201d.<\/li>\n
\nJeremy Hunt has outlined the key principles of reform to the adult social care system and announced a 10 year strategy to align the health and social care workforce.<\/li>\n
\nNHS England and the government have agreed to carry out a review of primary care premises as part of this year\u2019s GP contract deal with the British Medical Association.<\/li>\n
\nCommissioners in London are asking NHS England for extra funding to cover rising costs associated with the controversial digital practice GP at Hand.<\/li>\n
\nCritics of trusts creating wholly owned subsidiary companies are being \u201cinaccurate and misleading\u201d in their arguments against the trend, NHS Providers has said.<\/li>\n
\nNHS trusts could be experiencing \u201cinvestigation fatigue\u201d because they are using incident investigations as a tool for performance management instead of a way to learn from mistakes, NHS Improvement has warned.<\/li>\n
\nSeveral areas of England struggling with doctor shortages are hoping to get a boost from five new medical schools, which have been announced today.<\/li>\n
\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to 13 clinical commissioning groups threatening legal action over \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d funding policies for people with serious long term health conditions.<\/li>\n
\nNew\u00a0research by Public Health England\u00a0has found the numbers of annual deaths of epilepsy patients has increased by 70 per cent between 2001 to 2014.<\/li>\n
\nA single accountable officer will lead all four clinical commissioning groups across a West Midlands sustainability and transformation partnership.<\/li>\n
\nA clinical commissioning group has dropped a plan to pilot an asthma service with the controversial online primary care company Babylon Health, after opposition from its GPs.<\/li>\n
\nTrusts have begun taking steps to centralise vascular surgery following an NHS Improvement clinical review<\/a>,\u00a0HSJ\u00a0can reveal.<\/li>\n
\nAn increasing number of trainee doctors are taking a career break following completion of the foundation training, new research reveals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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